skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so I keep wondering why they are flagged

Some people have their post automatically flagged, because of their bad behavior in the past. (mod correctly if I'm wrong)
Yeah, the non-compete term makes it particularly radioactive.
Godwins law.
There is no indication that problems are going to be linear related to temperature increase. Maybe it will be twice worse, maybe 20 times worse, who knows.

Among the many problems, you can expect heat to be so hot that 1 billion people will be living in a place where it's not physically possible to live (humidity doesn't allow the body to cool down): https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/05/04/world-he.... It won't exactly be all roses to the other billions too
Yeah but if im nearby we'll raise the global IQ by a lot. Im super dumb.
I'm not really disagreeing. Yes, in many/most places in the US, the top fresh grad comps reported in that survey are at levels many tech people would be happy to retire at.
How I went from growing startups to buying them
I'm from the middle of nowhere, USA. I recently left a local job that paid significantly more than "normal" software jobs locally (though fairly modest by by SF/NYC/Seattle/Chicago/etc standards), and I was quite lucky to have been able to work there. Truly an outlier even among outliers.

I left for family reasons (we were moving cities) and basically just assumed I would need to work remote to find comparable comp. Still, I applied to a few local places that happened to be allowing "work from home".

The offers were just depressingly low. In talks with one local place, I put down my current base pay + current (expected) annual bonus as what I wanted for my base pay. The recruiter told me they'd be very unlikely to be able to come close to that, because the number I'd put down was the top end of the range that they paid people with twenty five years of experience. I ended up doing their interview process just to get practice but due to a clerical error on their side, despite the fact that the result of the interview process was a decision to hire, they weren't able to make me an offer because all the positions had filled up. So I'm still technically waiting on their promise that "as soon as a position opens up, you're the first person I'll be calling".

Anyway, I took an offer from a coastal company for 3-4x what I suspect they were going to be offering me.

The worst part is this company was lauded as one of the best, highest-paying, most-generous-benefits-having companies in my area.

So, I dunno. Clearly whatever they're doing works for them. But I've got a fairly dim view of my local job markets. I also suspect they'll be the kinds of places that just outsource development and/or die rather than raise dev pay if widespread-post-covid-remote-work raises salaries locally.
In 1997, I had a meeting with Netscape executives about a similar technology I had created out of concern for the privacy implications of cookies. I called it LAD (local advertising decision). The server would send a script down to the browser saying “if the user meets X criteria, show this ad, else show Y” and so on. It could use browser history, installed software, and other factors for targeting.

At the time I was laughed out of the room. Turns out I was just 24 years too early.
Where do toebiters come in?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belostomatidae

Apparently they have one of the most “excruciatingly painful” bites. But I guess does that not count as a “sting”?
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Right, this one and http://www.hnreplies.com/ make HN useful.
For our own sanity I hope it gets shorted to zero...
Signal now has video calling through their desktop application.

(a) its actively maintained
(b) unsure about requirements of "standalone service", but its stand alone as its only a chat service
(c) its just a messaging client, no calendar/meeting kind of stuff

Other than that I've had good success with web-focused services like Google Meet and Jit.si. There isn't a desktop app but to an extent that's been a win. All you need to do is email/text a link to your chosen friends and its all in their browser using web standards (or semi-standards, no plugins at least for modern FF/Chrome/Edge). No accounts, assuming they have a modern browser there's no software to install, just click and go.
Isn't that basic hosting plan still a ready made SaaS platform?
Although it's nice of you to help out, one should not have to go to the length of reporting a problem on hackernews to get google to respond.
They look fine for me in Chromium.
> already were

Fixed that. Maybe some nefarious three-letter agency found another way, maybe not. Even if they did, they have a powerful incentive never to let it be known. And it's still almost entirely algorithmic.

On the other hand, human moderators are inherently going to be entry-level individuals in a call center in a low-wage country. These are not the same things.

How would you feel about human moderation of your email?
There's now a handy API for getting company logos into your app
Except Google’s RSUs vest every month. So, other than the whims of the market, it’s the same as salary.
But can you write "consistently safe" (whatever that may mean) programs in any other language?
You're being generous. It's a blatant lie for marketing purposes. Its "solution" is the same as the second problem it claims to avoid.
I'm low vision / blind and the other day I sat down to try to make Factorio self-speaking. I wanted to be able to hover over items in the inventory and have the game speak what they were, as a start. Though I like the docs pretty well and I got as far as having the game read chat messages aloud (you can dump to a file and I wrote a little speech server to check the file for updates and read its contents if it changed on disc), the names and descriptions of items aren't available to the API, which seems like a pretty basic oversight. I could likely have implemented a reading of structures clicked on in the game world, but not of items in the inventory.
Alarming video reveals everything Google knows about who you are
This is a good idea that has potential. Next I think would be to facilitate some guided interaction flow, in terms of responses between the sides, and somehow preventing it from devolving into a flame war.
Germany is one of the dirtiest producers of electricity in the European Union with 400 grams of CO2 per kWh on average while France emits 50 grams of CO2 per kWh on average.

Poland is actually planning to build nuclear power plants while Germany is permitting the shutdown of coal-powered plants plus building 17 new gas plants.

Thus, Poland’s electricity will eventually be cheaper than Germany’s.
This is a quite an interesting architecture that could also be used for developing on the browser. I imagine some of the existing browser development tools use something similar
Ooooh thanks for sharing! I am a beginner to Rust (this emulator being my second project). I was not aware of that.

I feel like when I'm done I need to find a bit of cash and get a veteran to code review the whole thing. I'm learning a ton by suffering through it myself. But also probably missing a lot of great shortcuts and tips.

I assume the "five heap allocations" is kinda tongue in cheek? My understanding is that while it is good to avoid heap allocations, given this is a called-once piece of code, it's not really a big deal?
Ask HN: Which book do you want to read next?
And what's your reading frequency for books?
The part that's really tricky to me is the noncompete clause, since neither side is a static entity. There are lots of situations where you could end up as competitors.
Reading this article, which is targeted at advertisers, feels like how I imagine a cow would feel looking in the window of a butcher shop.
Netflix issues several types of DRM license, not just Widevine, Google's marketshare here is fairly modest.
The negative effects of climate change are caused by the total level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, not the current rate of emissions. The world reduced the rate of emissions by 10% last year. That's better than nothing, but the overall level of greenhouse gases still rose by a lot last year, so it makes sense that ice would continue to melt faster. This trend will continue until we have net negative emissions, which is pretty much only possible if we first have close to zero emissions from power generation, transportation, and agriculture, as well as cash subsidies for carbon removal and sequestration.

The fix to climate change has never been reduced emissions, it has been negative emissions or zero emissions if you're willing to accept a slower, inferior solution. Reducing emissions just buys a little bit of time (but not much, based on what most of the world considers "reduced").
You are ignoring the high amount of emissions necessary to produce the battery.

You have to compare the complete lifecycles, including production and recycling of the car.
Also, that 120gCO₂/km doesn't take into account the CO₂ emissions for the electricity for the refinery to make the diesel. Or the transportation of the diesel.
Would an extension that sets random headers be a solution to blurring identity?
Plethora of static analysis tools make it possible to write code that's "safe enough" I would imagine, for some value of "safe enough"
Btw, this is considered more or less canonical k style. (with q being a slighty more readable version of this)

It takes some time getting used to it, but, once you get the hang of it, going back to e.g. Python/Pandas is painful.
I'd ban politics.

Personally I'd find it interesting on science articles.

I'd even pin it to DOIs, keep the media out of it. But media articles are shit, which gets people arguing which is what you want for clicks..... I'd work towards only DOIs but media science articles to start to get numbers.

Just my thoughts. I know I'd like to see dissenting and agreeing opinions on DOIs, just not sure how you would get there.
> Italy ended up jailing some seismologists for failing to predict a deadly earthquake

That was a first level sentence, which was revoked in 2015 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/italy-s-supreme-cour...
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Looks like a website that strives to further good things, such as free debate between people of different opinions. Good idea but the execution is lacking, I find the UI to be clumsy on full-page width. The font is too large and while I don't mind monospace fonts usually, it does not look neat for me in this case.

And as others have mentioned, things are rarely a two-sided topic. Would it be possible to allow for a topic to have more than two sides? n-number of positions to take that are somehow pre-picked by the OP?

Also, as others have mentioned, how will you moderate it? Will you allow highly controversial topics like those regarding WW2 and race? Where will you draw the line? The quality of a forum is firstly decided by the people who post on the forum, but moderators decide who are able to post on a forum, so in effect, moderators end up being the final arbiters of forum quality in the end.

I would find it very interesting if there was a forum that was formal in tone, allowing people to sometimes border on offensive but never hateful topics. A forum like that would in theory perhaps allow most if not all voices to be heard and talk to one another? While such a place probably would not be pleasing to most, it seems like something the internet lacks at the moment.
Personally I'm incredibly happy to have spent the pandemic in Europe rather than totalitarian regimes. And even though I spent my time between Italy, UK and Slovenia, three of the worst-hit countries.

But obviously different people have different preferences. I'm also young, fit, healthy programmer, so all-in-all very lucky.
We were talking about emissions, not costs.
Unfortunately most research on social capital and mistrust has been desk-drawered or heavily self censored due to the political implications.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/robert-putnam-and-the-ethi...

https://www.city-journal.org/html/bowling-our-own-10265.html
Difficult since Wisdom of Crowds is not always rational;
Should be a bit easier with Rust or Ada I think.
$2.6B worth of shite…
Taiwan say no is sure. But china is getting not much bad news. If he can transform into a totalitarian control regime but still attract foreign money and trade ... plus a bit sanction. May be they can do Taiwan as well. It would break the balance and has a platform to launch to pacific. It showed America is just paper tiger (and Asian countries would “know”). China may try. As one of the top guys said we can lost 1 billion chinese still the second largest country on the world (in terms of population). After Korean War do not underestimate the craziness of unification (see how south be defeated and china later involved).

No one want this war. But the incentives of china is still here.
It seems this is the natural endgame, every refrigerator will come with an LCD screen on the front that advertises at you.

I just hope that my new fridge will continue to keep my food cold after I smash the screen with a hammer.
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> We all know what is meant by serverless and "without a server"

Please feel free to furnish us with a definition that includes this product but excludes the existing solutions.
Yep.

The fact that there isn't a framework doesn't mean there's a problem. It could just be you have an unnatural need for structure where none is needed.
Every file is written once (when you change it) and then a second time (when the client writes the same file into a backup chunk). Halving the SSD lifetime is not something I’d personally call meaningless, especially for QLC drives which have two orders of magnitude fewer P/E cycles than SLC drives[0], especially since there’s no good reason for writing these chunks to disk in the first place.

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/nand-and-cells-slc-qlc-tlc-an...
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FLoC is an engineering solution to a political problem.

The problem with targeted advertising isn't the use of cookies, the problem with targeted advertising is the targeting. It doesn't matter if you're using fancy machine-learning and on-device targeting to avoid technically collecting targeting data. People don't like seeing their web history funnel into their advertising.
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You may want to rethink the messaging here.

From the landing page I'm unsure what type of person would benefit from this and what problem you're solving for them.

I already can publish from git directly to Netlify's "distributed CDN." That's the default setup for all static site generators, no?

Or is the difference here that you get a CMS editor built-in to your static site?
What about the newcomers? They're people too!
Day One Policy Proposals
That varies a lot regionally.
Plenty of people use "gipped" for "ripped off", and "Zigeuner Schnitzel" is on the menu at US German-cuisine restaurants. For once, it's us who haven't caught up with the magical outrage words.
>I think it's interesting how they use Fox News in the title, not News Corp. Sadly the makes it clear this is a agenda article not really about the people. The statement is made that the funds raised should goto the Australia citizens and not the news producers who's content is being used by big tech without compensation. While the law maybe bad it's not made clear by the anti "Fox News" agenda of the author, sadly this is what most news has come to not reporting but reporter agenda pieces.

I think it is perfectly valid to call out Fox News in the title, because most readers would not know who News Corp is but do know Fox News, and for the intents of this article they are very similar.

Moreover the reason why this is called in particularly the Fox News tax is because News Corp are the main beneficiary by quite a margin, they have >50% market share in Australia [1].

Furthermore Murdoch has a strong history of influencing Australian politics in his favour and the ruling liberal party has a history of implementing policy directly to benefit him.

The National Broadband Network was widely popular in Australia, however it threatened Murdoch's payTV business. So he had meetings with liberal party leadership, who promised to hamstring (or roll-back) the NBN. They were essentially voted into power with headlines of "vote these suckers out" (Labour was in power) and similar in all Murdoch papers and no none of the "left-leaning" papers ever did something remotely close to that. As a non-Australian it was quite shocking to observe how blatantly partisan those headlines were.

News corp is not media it is a far-right billionaire propaganda organisation.
Hmm, is this true? Do you have data for that? Big swathe of people who don’t get liquid RSUs: contractors, startup employees. Big swathe of people who do: all FTEs of large public companies (banks, tech, health care, etc).

I suppose I’ve convinced myself that it might be true that “most” applies, but it’s a close call in my very back of the envelope analysis. :)
I really like this - congrats on launching. Really effective UI that helps cut through the complexity of single column vertical threads.
Procedural GL JavaScript: mobile-first 3D mapping engine
One of the world’s fastest-growing startups burned through $300m
> How has this problem not been fixed yet? What is so difficult about calling and texting on the internet?

The amount of money the customers are willing to pay for this service is lower than the cost of running this service. It is because the service sits between "Free" and "Mid-tier"
It’s exactly for this kind of situations that we built Monitoro[0]. We believe it shouldn’t take hours and so much code to get such a simple change notifier working.

You can not only build a tracker like in TFA in minutes and without code, but also track any website (not just github), send alerts to any chat software, so MS Teams, Slack, Discord... and more importantly receive a specific info from the page. For example, the author of the last change, the code at line X etc...

Disclaimer: I’m the founder.

[0]: https://monitoro.xyz
This is a commercial license, but it's not even a remote approximation of “open source”, so the references to “commercial open source” and comparisons to the AGPL (which is a copyleft open source license) are misleading.
And you are ignoring that electric cars produce fine dust particles from their brakes and tyres as well.

The fine dust is actually a much more serious problem in the city than combustion engine emissions as the latter are passed through particle filters and the catalyst.
I have been using AnonAddy[0] for this, with great results. I initially used Firefox Relay, but switched to get more than 5 aliases. AnonAddy also recently added support for replies.

[0] https://anonaddy.com/
I think this is actually a pretty good start. There are features you could add, but overall I enjoyed the way the arguments were presented. It didn’t do much to change my opinion, but it was nice to have each crazy in its own place.
I have a datapoint of 1 here, but http://www.facebook.com doesn't have the correct logo. Doesn't give me much confidence to rely on it if it can't pull facebooks logo as expected.

https://klazify.s3.amazonaws.com/80723278216111782886008a130...
Of course it has. Your smartphone is the manifestation. It replaces at least 40 functions and makes your life better. If you choose to use mostly the bad parts, that is on you. It’s like complaining about your car making your life worse, but you only drive in reverse and bump into things
wow! Started a semi conductor company at 56. Talk about drive and energy.
only in the sense that you'll pay rent for it, it's not "software" and will let you run your own stack with no added cost and full portability.
You mention focused driving, but here's a cool idea. Your subconscious which actually handles most of ur behavior and decision making and nuanced calculations gradually learns from your conscious. When you focus on things, you gradually train your subconscious to mirror that behavior and do it autonomously.

This is demonstrable by reflecting on new things you learn versus old things. Old things like walking you barely put any conscious effort in, yet once you reach a certain age the daily obstacle course that is life, which is full of tripping hazards becomes effortless to avoid ensnaring ur foot on and succumbing to a sudden tumble. But if you were to try to roller blade for the first time, suddenly you have to put massive conscious strain and focus on every movement just to avoid falling on something so simple as a slight texture change on a surface.

Also interesting thought on (conscious) spatial awareness: Here's a question is your conscious aware of things first or is your subconscious aware first? When you conscious becomes aware how sure are yah that it's not your subconscious first alerting your conscious beforehand? These are rhetorical questions which psychologists and neuroscientists already have insights about :).

Life is dangerous, but many of the dangers are predictable and the brain is adept growing to adjust to that predictability AND at learning to recognize indicators for unpredictable dangers(humans receive anxiety in these moments). In those latter situations Intelligence and consciousness is needed. Dangers that are predictable can be learned to be subconsciously handled without much worry & with much practice + experience.

Tesla autopilot is a computerized subconscious that's consciously trained by all the tesla drivers.

I strongly suspect that we'll never have level 5 autopilot with or without lidar sensors unless the computers get a human adaptable intelligence module OR some convention simplifies the environment such that new unpredictable dangers can be minimized to a miniscule and acceptable failure rate.
I think people in this debate are focusing on the wrong issues.
I’ve always chalked it up to fundraising strategy, but I admit my opinion is reactive, I haven’t done any research.
Thanks! Any idea where I can learn more about data structures? I feel like I'm lacking there.
Reasons you should use the native GraphQL database, Dgraph
Vital word: “was”. Do you know what SWE5’s in London are being offered today? I make offers and I can tell you that it’s a discount to be in London, but it’s not _that_ big of a discount.
Not entirely sure why this gets downvoted. The OO situation is a disgrace and it's embarrassing that apache has not solved it.
Cool, the source is available: https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay

Edit: I've previously claimed it to be open source. But there's no License currently that would indicate that.
There's a lot of great reasons not to like React, but it's not a throwaway project. There hasn't been a new major player in the frontend framework space for years, and most of the little ones that pop up seem to borrow heavily from React.

Additionally, the scale of its adoption seems to me a guarantee that it will stick around a long time. There's already Preact, but if one day Facebook stopped developing React, I'm sure someone would find a way to keep all that code running.
I think this is pretty good, lots of places to add features but it’s interesting.
One of the authors here. Could you please provide more detailss (system, browser type and version) and maybe a screenshot?

Do you have JS disabled?
From what I understand (someone correct me if I'm wrong) part of the problem is that baseband hardware and firmware requires expensive FCC approvals that's more compatible with the profitability of closed-source intellectual property.
I can see people taking issue with the word "prefer" in relation to getting drunk. It makes the tone of the OP seem dismissive of the fact that by the point you're putting alcohol/drugs before shelter and food you're no longer expressing a preference but rather a symptom of mental illness: addiction, depression, or otherwise.